Improvement in faucet-measures



n AzvRoowlAN. Measuring Faucet.

Patented Feb. 13, 1866.

UNrrE-D STATES PATENT Clinica.

ADDISON VROOMAN, vOF KOKOMO, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FAUCET-IVIEASURES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 52,628, dated February 13, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADDISON VROOMAN, of Kokomo, Howard county, and State cflndiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Faucet-Measures; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a faucet with double ingress and egress passages communieating with two measures, which are provided with vent-indicators for drawing and measuring liquids, as will b e ,hereinafter more fully i set forth.

Figure I of the drawings represents my improved faucet-measure in perspective. Fig. 1I represents the spigot of the faucet detached, 'and Fig. III represents the vent-indicator detached from the measure.

Io enable others to construct and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

In the drawings, A B denote the faucet, which is inserted in the cask for use in the usual manner. Upon the opposite sides of the faucet are the measures a and b, which are connected to the faucet, as represented in the drawings, near the top and bottom, by tubes e e and e' e', which communicate withboth the faucet and the measures. The tubes c e' are connected with the barrel of the faucet nearer to the front side of it, the distance between these tubes being about one-third of the eX- tent ofthe circumference of the barrel of the faucet, and the orice g g in the spigot, near its top, is made to correspond with the openings ortubes communicatingwiththe measures.

The orifices for the egress of the liquid cor* respond with the structure of faucets generally in use, except that the opening in the side of the spigot extends across it, as represented in the drawings. q

The discharge-orifice is a simple tube in the bottom of the spigot, and connected with the opening across the spigot, as denoted by thev letter i.

The vent-indicator represented in Fig. III

is made of a rod with the cross-head nrepresentingV the letter T, and at the foot of the rod is a floating valve of conical form, corresponding with the openings in the caps of the measures. (Denoted by letters s s.) This rod misto be inserted iu the opening S, with the lioating valve attached to its lower end within the measures, and the cross-head u is above the caps s s. Each of the measures is provided with this vent-indicator, which serves the purpose of closing the vent and of indicating the quantity of liquid in the measure.

The rod m may be made of sufficient length` so that it will indicate-as its float raises it any quantity within the measure. The rod may be furnished with a suitable scale, marked upon its side, to indicate any designated measure less'than the contents of the whole vessel or measure.

Upon the piston or spigot there is a short pin, l, projecting above the barrel and equidistant from the two openings or orifices (which connect) in the upper part'of the spigot, and upon the upper end of the faucet-barrel B', opposite to each other, there are two pins projecting, against which the pin of the spigot will strike when turned either way, and these pins serve as stops, determining the extent of'v the spigots motion.

It will be seen from the foregoing description that in operating my faucet the orifices are so arranged that while one measure is being filled the other may be discharged of' its measured contents.

The orifices in the spigot at or near its upl per end are arranged so as to convey liquid .from the cask to one measure at a time, the

other in gress-tube being closed during the time oflling the other measure 5 but the one closed at the ingress-orifice is opened at its egresspassage,so thatonemeasureis beingconstantly filled and emptied.

The vent-indicators do not serve merely as valves or plugs to close the vent as soon as the measures are full, but may be used, as described, to indicate the quantity within the measure, so that any denite amount may be drawn into or discharged from the measures.

It is obvious that the measures may be of anyisize desired, and the indicator-rod may be made of a length corresponding with the depth of the measures.

Having thus fully described the manner of constructing and using my improved faucet measure, wh at I claim as my invention therein 1s- 1. The arrangement of the double -criees near the top and bottom of faucet, when the latter is used in combination With'the measures a and b, constructed and operatingin the manner described, whereby liquid may be drawn anddischarged measured at the same time', substantially as specified. Q

2. The faucet and measures a and b,in combination with the vent-indicators c d, constructed, arranged, and operating together in the manner described,f0r thepurpose specified.

ADDISON VROOMAN. Witnesses:

- H.- P. K. PECK,

NELSON GATES. 

